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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the French negotiator think Sharpe is trying to do?
(a) Stop the French advance.
(b) Draw him away from Vivar's position.
(c) Sabotage his capture of Vivar.
(d) Help Vivar escape.

2. What does Vivar ask Sharpe to do?
(a) Leave the fighting to his Cazadores.
(b) Sneak behind the French lines.
(c) Provide covering fire so he can charge the French.
(d) Go south to draw the French away.

3. How is the person Sharpe meets dressed?
(a) He is dressed in a tattered and worn uniform.
(b) As a Spanish gentleman.
(c) Immaculately.
(d) Sloppily.

4. Why is Sharpe worried about Louisa?
(a) Because she doesn't speak Spanish.
(b) Because he worries she doesn't love him.
(c) Because of the upcoming fight.
(d) The guerrillas may mistake her for being French.

5. What does Vivar tell Sharpe the strongbox contains?
(a) Gold.
(b) Money.
(c) Jewels.
(d) Papers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe tell the Parkers to do when he sights French cavalry?

2. What does Sharpe do to a cavalry horse that reaches him?

3. What do the British and Spanish decide to do when they arrive at a village in Chapter 6?

4. What does Williams tell Sharpe that Vivar has told Williams about the strongbox?

5. What does the French negotiator tell Sharpe about the French army?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Sharpe's men begin to call out enthusiastically when the Parkers come in front of the assembly and what does Mrs. Parker explain to Sharpe?

2. Why does Sharpe withdraw his small force of riflemen he left in the woods?

3. What does Sharpe do to talk to the French and what is the French colonel's appearance like compared to Sharpe?

4. What do the British and Spanish find when they enter a village, what do they do and how do the troops feel?

5. What does Sharpe have his riflemen do when the French ambush them?

6. What does Williams tell Harper about Sharpe and what does Sharpe tell Williams to do? What is Williams suggestion to Sharpe?

7. What is the fortress to which Vivar has brought Sharpe and the Spanish troops and what does Vivar say about Spain and the French?

8. What does Vivar asks Sharpe and what does Sharpe decide to do after speaking with Vivar?

9. What happens as Sharpe is about to order his riflemen to flee the house and who joins him in the woods?

10. What does Vivar tell Davila to do?

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